"The Song of Purple Summer" - from Spring Awakening

This was our finale number from "Positively Touching 4", the 4th annual cabaret fundraiser to benefit Positive Being (www.positivebeing.org). I dedicated this to Matthew Shepard, who was killed 10 years earlier the weekend after this performance.

The Song of Purple Summer
Listen to what's in the heart of a child
a song so big in one so small
soon you will hear where beauty lies
you'll hear and you'll recall

The sadness, the doubt, all the loss, the grief
will belong to some play from the past
as the child leads the way to a dream, a belief
a time of hope through the land

And all shall fade
the flowers of spring
the world and all the sorrows
at the heart of everything

but still it stays
the butterfly sings
and opens purple summer
with a flutter of its wings

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares will neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

and all shall know the wonder
of purple summer...

And yet, I wait
the swallow brings
a song to hard to follow
that no one else can sing

the fences sway
the porches swing
the sky begins to thunder
crickets wander, murmuring

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares will neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

and all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer

and all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer

all shall know the wonder
of purple summer...

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[scotnca]

Beautiful song Sean...Thanks for sharing it!

Hope to see you...Just moved back to the Castro...Scotty